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Acclaimed Portland singer-songwriter Laura Gibson's last album, 2009's Beasts of Seasons, was a somber, dew-soft meditation on death. By comparison, "La Grande," the title song that opens her forthcoming fifth record, is a party track. With its galloping rhythm, purposely devised to evoke the sound of horses pounding across a dusty plain -- the album is grounded thematically in the American West and ...
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Stop everything you are doing. I think you're going to want to hear the new Menomena single. This morning, on an official announcement on the band's website (and also Pitchfork, Stereogum, and your kid brother's blog) drummer Danny Seim finally gave some concrete details on the upcoming Menomena record, Mines, which is out on July 27 on Barsuk records. First, we've got the debut single, "Five Little ...
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